Pilgrims are lining up to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome as Christmas marks ...

Pope Francis has told Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another, calling gossip "an evil that destroys social ...

Israeli authorities allowed a rare Gaza visit by the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista ...

The Vatican announced late Saturday that due to inclement weather and cold symptoms, Pope Francis will lead the Sunday ...

May this be the last wartime Christmas, Cardinal Krajewski prays in Kharkiv, as he celebrated Mass in Ukraine amidst Russia's ...

Against this dazzling backdrop, the first pilgrims for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, which begins on Christmas Eve, ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem ... s Square as a Christmas tree ...

By now Francis’ annual Christmas address to the priests ... Francis issued a less critical address to the Vatican’s lay employees who gathered in the city state’s main audience hall along ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided over his ... greeted the artists and donors responsible for all the Vatican’s Christmas decorations this year, which include various depictions ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element ...